Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".

July 9, the Nigerian President offered Taylor safe exile in his country, if Taylor stayed out of Liberian politics.

On 9 July, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo offered Taylor exile in his country on the condition that Taylor stay out of Liberian politics.

Reconstruction, helped by the oil money, was swift ; however, the old ethnic and religious tensions remained a constant feature of Nigerian politics.

Politicians were particularly incensed at Soyinka's prescient portrayal of post-colonial Nigerian politics as aimless and corrupt.

He was known as a stabilizing force in Nigerian politics, particularly in 1966 after the assassination of Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of Northern Nigeria.

Recent research and publications also include Nigerian politics, globalization and global transformation of terror. His recent classes ( graduate and undergraduate ) at FDU includes, Human Rights in a Global Environment, Terrorism and Political Violence, Africa In World Affairs, Colonialism, Imperialism and Dependency, Political and Economic Challenges In Africa, Geography and World Issues, Problems In International Politics and The African State.

The Africanists felt that the Nigerian scholars should be more objective and less involved in current politics.

Nigerian Standard English is used in politics, the Internet and some television programs.

Nnewi has contributed its fair share of key players in Nigerian politics.

The party continued to dominate politics in Lagos until 1938, when the Nigerian Youth Movement ( NYM ) overtook it in elections.

Nigerian sectarian violence takes place in the state.

It originated from the Nigerian Igbo culture and proverb " Ora na azu nwa " which means it takes the community / village to raise a child.

This was the highest percentage of Nigerian Americans of any place in the country.

The 12th African Division had a similar formation with the Ghanaian brigade taking the place of the Nigerian brigade.

What made him co-found Médecins Sans Frontières was his experience as a physician for the Red Cross during the Nigerian Civil War that took place in Biafra, 1968.

The 12th African Division had a similar formation with a Ghanaian brigade taking the place of a Nigerian brigade.

In August 1990, the 16-member ECOWAS agreed to deploy a joint military intervention force, the Economic Community Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ), and place it under Nigerian leadership.

Nigerian Pidgin also varies from place to place.

Use of the word " deh " or " dey " is found in both Jamaican Patois and Nigerian Pidgin English, and is used in place of the English word " is " or " are ".

*** Nigerian governors condemn the recent riots that have taken place in the country.

Some information about his career: Esporte Clube Internacional, Rio Grande do Sul ; América, Rio de Janeiro ; Brazilian national under-20 football team ( world futball / soccer category ) held in Holland in 2005, with his team obtaining third place ; Chile Octogonal Tournament ( 2005 ), Chile, South America ; candidate to become the coach of the Nigerian national football team in 2005.

Obasanjo agreed to withdraw Nigerian troops within 60 days and to leave the territory completely in Cameroonian control within the next two years.

The most powerful of these states were Ghana, Gao, and Kanem, which were not within the boundaries of modern Nigeria but which influenced the history of the Nigerian savanna.

In doing so, it played an appreciable part in reinforcing the military ’ s nearly first-among-equals status within Nigerian society, and the linked decline in military effectiveness.

Alhaji Ibrahim Bio, the Nigerian Minister of Transport, said his ministry would work to make certain the project would be completed within its designated timeframe.

The Campaign for a Workers ' Alternative is the Nigerian section of the IMT which is active within the Nigerian Labour Party.

The bight was renamed within independent Nigeria in 1972, when after the Biafran War, the Nigerian government wanted to remove the name of the secessionist Biafra.

The Sokoto area was treated as just another emirate within the Nigerian Protectorate and because it never was connected with the railway network it became economically and politically marginal.

Popular with the upper class residents of Nigerian high society, Ikoyi is one of the wealthier communities within the Eti-Osa Local Government Area.

Ken Saro-Wiwa, the late president of MOSOP, described the transition this way: “ if you then think that within the space of seventy years they were struck by the combined forces of modernity, colonialism, the money economy, indigenous colonialism and then the Nigerian Civil War, and that they had to adjust to these forces without adequate preparation or direction, you will appreciate the bafflement of the Ogoni people and the subsequent confusion engendered in the society .”

In Early January 2007, several sources within Norwegian football claim that Ijeh will soon be looking for another club, with English Championship side Coventry City courting the Nigerian striker, who is thought to be keen to test his skills in the more physical English game.

Following World War II, in response to the growth of Nigerian nationalism and demands for independence, successive constitutions legislated by the British Government moved Nigeria toward self-government on a representative and increasingly federal basis.

Capturing 89 seats in the federal parliament was the second largest party in the newly independent country the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens ( NCNC ).

Traditional stars included the Hausa Dan Maraya, who was so well known that he was brought to the battlefield during the 1967 Nigerian Civil War to lift the morale of the federal troops.

A military coup against the civilian Nigerian federal government in January 1966 and a counter coup in July 1966 by different military factions, perceived to be ethnic coups, resulted in pogroms in Northern Nigeria in which Igbos were predominantly killed.

Aguiyi-Ironsi, as GOC of the Nigerian Army, brought normality back to the nation by imprisoning the coup makers and intimidating the federal cabinet into handing over the helms of government to him.

The Nigerian federal government filed a lawsuit against BAT and two other tobacco companies in 2007.

In his Path to Nigerian Freedom ( 1947 ) — the first systematic federalist manifesto by a Nigerian politician — he advocated federalism as the only basis for equitable national integration and, as head of the Action Group, he led demands for a federal constitution, which was introduced in the 1954 Lyttleton Constitution, following primarily the model proposed by the Western Region delegation led by him.

Some non-Igbos living in the Eastern Region either refrained from offering active support to the Biafran struggle, or actively aided the federal side by enlisting in the Nigerian army and feeding it intelligence about Biafran military activities.

The postwar years saw Nigeria enjoying a meteoric, oil-fueled, economic upturn in the course of which the scope of activity of the Nigerian federal government grew to an unprecedented degree, with increased earnings from oil revenues.

He had the planes painted in camouflage colours, fitted with rockets from Matra and proceeded with a band of friends to form a squadron called ' Babies of Biafra ' to strike the air fields from which the federal Nigerian Air Force launched their attacks against the civilian population in Biafra.

With increased British support, the Nigerian federal forces launched their final offensive against the Biafrans once again on 23 December 1969 with a major thrust by the 3rd Marine Commando Division ( the division was commanded by Col. Obasanjo ( who later became president twice ) which succeeded in splitting the Biafran enclave into two by the end of the year.

In the House of Commons, Evans was true to his pacifist principles in being one of the few MPs to oppose the British government's support of the Nigerian federal government with supplies of weapons in the civil war against Biafra ( 1967 – 1970 ).

Until then the Nigerian regional governments could make their own foreign relation policies independent of the federal government.

Professor Ojo was named the chairman of the governing council of Michael Imodu National Institute for Labor Studies, a parastatal of the Nigerian federal Ministry of Employment, Labor and Productivity, by President Obasanjo in October 2005. He was part of the Nigerian delegation to the ILO annual conference in June 2006 and led the Nigerian labor delegation to South Africa in February 2006 and was part of the Labor team / legislators delegation to Washington DC in August 2006.

Elections in Nigeria are forms of choosing representatives to the Nigerian federal government and the various states in Nigeria.

Following a military coup in Nigeria in 1966, the federal system was abolished, and the posts of the Agent-General of Nigerian Regions in London were subsumed in the Nigerian High Commission.